Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-840-2.27E: Separation agreement

Any affected employee who receives severance benefits pursuant

to the State Government Reduction-in-Force and Severance Benefits

Act shall execute a separation agreement with the employing agency,

on forms to be prescribed by the Director of the Office of

Management and Enterprise Services. The forms shall comply with

applicable federal laws and may include but not be limited to the

following elements:

1. Agreement by the affected employee that the receipt of the

benefits is in lieu of continued employment with the agency or other

severance benefits related to the current reduction-in-force;

2. Agreement by the affected employee that, to the extent

allowed by federal or state law, respectively, the affected employee

releases the State of Oklahoma and the agency from all claims,

liabilities, demands and causes of action known or unknown, fixed or

contingent, equitable, legal or administrative, except unemployment

insurance;

3. Agreement by the affected employee that, to the extent

allowed by federal or state law, respectively, the affected employee

releases the State of Oklahoma and the agency from any claim or

cause of action which might arise under federal or state laws

governing the employment relationship; and

4. Agreement by the affected employee that the affected

employee knows and understands that the receipt of severance

benefits is in exchange, to the extent allowed by federal or state

law, for any rights the affected employee may have had to:

a. continued employment with any agency, and

b. future employment with the agency from which separated

for a period of one (1) year from the date of the

agreement, provided that nothing in this subparagraph

shall prohibit an appointing authority of any agency

from employing an affected employee who has received a

severance benefit.

The provisions of this section shall not prohibit any affected

employee from accepting severance benefits from more than one agency

during employment with the State of Oklahoma.